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By Richard Elman

Poetry. Edited by Alice Goode-Elman with a foreword by Louis Asekoff. "Richard Elman was an authentic man of letters and of conscience. Writing was his life, writing as an act of personal testimony and witness. At whatever cost he spoke truth to pow...

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By Harry Polkinhorn

Poetry. Child of our amorphous border and a lifetime boundary-walker, transcriber of unknown or scarcely remembered languages, in DEMOS ONEIRON Harry Polkinhorn hews fast to the bafflement of dreams and the dream of language, set forth in a pensive ...

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By Alboqasem Ferdowsi

Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the Persian by Richard Jeffrey Newman. "In this compelling translation of the Iranian epic, Richard Jeffrey Newman has given a new generation of readers access to this classic tale of politics, devotio...

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By Jerome Rothenberg

Poetry. A central figure of both the "deep image" and ethnopoetics movements, and a pioneering experimentalist, Jerome Rothenberg is the author of over eighty collections of poems and ten volumes of translations and editor of nine groundbreaking ant...

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By Rochelle Owens

Poetry. A central figure in the international avant-garde for fifty years, Rochelle Owens has published sixteen previous volumes of poetry, including NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1961-1996 and LUCA: DISCOURSE ON LIFE AND DEATH (both Junction Press, 1997 a...

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By Stephen Vincent

Poetry. "These are the poems Stephen Vincent has been preparing to write his entire life. They definitely pass the 'take the top of your head off' test. I went cover to cover without even sitting up."—Ron Silliman"Stephen Vincent's observant, large-...

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By Charles Alexander

Poetry. Charles Alexander, in his new collection of poetry CERTAIN SLANTS, "...gives us certain slants, various slants, oblique angles into this world, poems written with considerable grace, integrity, and a tentativeness that becomes an ethical gol...

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By Jose Kozer

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Mark Weiss. "The poetry of Kozer, in this beautifully selected & translated edition, moves from a particular person & place (Cuban, Jewish, caught between home & exile)...

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By Mervyn Taylor

Poetry. African American Studies. The latest collection from Mervyn Taylor offers up his familiar blend of the ancestral and the immediate, the natural and the psychological, the phenomenological and the social. "Where does it hurt,/ the doctor asks...

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By Gloria Gervitz

Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Mark Schafer. "To say that this is a book of the immigrant experience--which in some sense it is--is to underrate the range of form and feeling that Gervitz brings to it, creating thereby an epic of the migrato...

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By Harry Polkinhorn and Mark Weiss, Editors

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by many hands. "The astonishing range of fifty-three poetic voices, traditional native chants and popular corridos which are generously presented in bilingual format is ro...

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By Rochelle Owens

Poetry. "Owens's theme is that of violation—the violation of one person's space by those who want to control or absorb it, who will not let it beàOwens does not shrink from the violence and horror she finds everywhere around her and which she projec...

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By Armand Schwerner

Poetry. A remarkably pure lyricism of word and silence and of skepticism. I think there should be recognized in these poems the presence of a lyric poet of depth and delicacy and power. I think, moreover, that these qualities and song itself are ver...

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By Ira Beryl Brukner

Poetry. "In his 4th book of poems, QUESTIONS, SHORT POEMS, WATER & AIR, Ira Beryl Brukner gives us four sets of quirky, funny, melancholy, and startlingly direct riffs on love, the birth of a son, the death of a father, and the deep questionings of ...